that Cathedrall tend apace thanks to you and your fellowes Orderly Reformation whereby it is exposed to the injurie of all weathers by removing its wonted glazen shelter of a strange thicknesse insomuch as what with the Raine somtimes with Snow another while getting in at the broken windowes in great abundance corruption and rottennesse have begun to seize on the walls And for the Floore in what a strange uncouth pickle it was all the Church * The warme and well-seated Sermon-house it selfe pag. 2. not excepted over with the great Snow the last winter and both before and since with the raine is too well knowne I wish it were not both to strangers and domesticks the story whereof of that Orderly Reformation I meane is not now to write though this be no time for truth and true stories of this kind to shew themselves Veritas odium parit But we mistake the man This is no part of his meaning Strange news and why 'T is the Politicall not the materiall condition of the Cathedrall he intends the Constitution of the Society there And is that your meaning friend Why then you tell us newes indeed and very strange newes too such as your fardell of arguments à solis particularibus à merè personalibus shall never beare you out in What do you think to argue down a Society a Corporation a Colledge a Company from the personall faults abuses corruptions failings of some one or more particular members and some of them if true not their own neither but their wives or their servants What Society then of any kind shall ever stand What Function not miscarrie Shall we have no more Ministers no more Magistrates because of each sort some have beene Delinquents Doughty Logick Or to argue ad hominem There have been rakehellie boyes somtimes at the Canterburian Free-Schoole and such that for an offence of an high nature being threatned with due correction have taken Sanctuary in a * A shrewd signe of a bad cause for Veritas non quaerit anguâ—os Bench-hole c. The same or some other when afterwards translated to the Vniversitie have played as bad or worse pranks there such indeed as have cost their authors an expulsion doth it follow hence good Richard by any good consequence in Logick that either the Schoole or Vniversity must down for this But to the Newes Stranger yet the corrupt constitution of the Canterburian Cathedrall What strange newes is here This verily is novum inauditum No sober no well-advised Protestant before these times ever said it Passe you shall for me for the first that ever brought such tidings to the eares of any true sonne of the Church of England since the Reformation of that and the like places by Hen. 8. In former time indeed it might it did deserve the terme and therefore in an happy houre the hand of providence sent a remedy changing it from what you call it a nest of idolatrous proud lazie covetous Monks into a Colledge of learned and religious Labourers in Gods Harvest yeelding from time to time such numbers of worthy Divines and of excellent parts some in preaching others in writing Champions of such value both those with the tongue these with the pen against those Samsonian Foxes Rome and Amsterdam as are or ought to be of precious memory in all the Churches of the Saints both at home and abroad Be ingenuous friend if you can and tell me in sober sadnesse The Canterburian Cathedrall fruitfull of famous men what thinke you of that blessed Martyr Ridley your own terme and he deserves it of M. Beacon D. Bale D. Whitaker D. Saravia M. Isaac Casaubon D. Boys D. Clerke M. Wilson to say nothing of Du Moulin the famous French Divine and others haply as deserving of the moderne Society These and many more such like are knowne one and all to have been in their times successors of those unworthy Monks in this very Cathedrall but can you in cold blood put on that more then brazen impudence as to averre their imitation of them in practice at the same instant too when your selfe a burning and shining light are in election to be of the Society you may if you please nay what do you lesse when in plaine termes you tell us that these prelaticall successors of the idolatrous proud lazy covetous Monks as they succeded them in place so they followed them in practice and in a scurrilous scandalous base character call the Society the Cathedrall Corporation A nest of Non-Residents an Epicurean Colledge of riot and voluptuousnesse a Schoole for complement in Religion but a scourge upon the life and practice thereof A refuge for superstition but the bane of true piety The shame of the Clergy and the scorne of the Laity with many other expressions of that prodigious nature Pag. 4 13 16 20. c. both in your Epistle and severall other parts of your Pamphlet such as Lucian himselfe would scarcely own Hence let the indifferent Reader judge and tell me if we are not like to have a goodly superstructure a precious story when the foundation is laid in Lies in Slanders of such a latitude of such an influence and reflexion What others may conceive of it I know not but I am perswaded that the Papists the Jesuits with the whole rabble of Sectaries will make great advantage of it against us not knowing what better sport to wish for then to see us spit venome cast dirt in the faces of their greatest Antagonists and our chiefest Champions the Chariots and the Horsmen of our Israel the great and glorious Assertors of the True Reformed Protestant Religion But that which followes in the Title Miraculous Newes though not of so great concernment yet is more strange still The Archbishop of Canterburies Passing-bell rung miraculously in that Cathedrall Here I would aske him if he have this by his owne observation or by others information It seems from neither for saving here only in the Title we heare nothing at all of it in the whole ensuing discourse And here observe we a fallacy of his A Fallacy I have the ensuing History quoth he in his Epistle for the most part of mine own observation and I have been punctuall see here the Master-he of all in examining the truth of what I have by information but he placeth this passage this news of the Passing-bell in the Front before the Epistle and so will avoid an ingagement to make it good either way namely by Observation of his owne or Information from others And consequently what have we more then his bare word for it Ipse dixit And this no doubt out of an over-weening magisteriall confidence given to the Tribe priding themselves in a conceit of their arrivall of that height of credit in the world that all they say shall eo ipso be belieft he thought would be sufficient expecting it seems such a beliefe here as out of an
and worth he betooke himselfe upon his first flight from the University to vulgar association consorting and keeping company and correspondence with none except sometime by intrusion but the Ignobile mobile vulgus the vulgar spirited rabble Charron a sort of people naturally given to contemne their governours and superiors and to quarrell with the present State Turba gravis paci plaoidaeque inimica quieti Wherein they wanted not for that encouragement which either his doctrine or example could contribute The particulars whereof are so notorious with his Countrimen as specification will be needlesse nay I could not please him and his tribe better then to enlarge with instances Irregularity and Inconformity to the present government the fruits of Refractorinesse passing in their account for such rare vertues as they pride themselves in nothing more in these times I shall therefore harpe no longer on that string lest I make him and his fellowes too much musick who love so little of what is good Proceed we then to another for Quisnam hominum est quem tu contentum vider is uno Flagitio Impudence is his next marke 2. Impudence Having a competency of a naturall audacity the man hath much improved it with use and custome having hereby arrived at such an height of habituall hardnesse as he is become audax ad omne facinus What action though of any modest sober man declined comes anisse to him As he is a great Athenian 3. Instance extreamly given to heare and tell to take in and let out news what report favouring his party how false soever will not he spread you shall have him and 't is his vaine from one end of the week unto the other like the News-cryes of London or as it were some Equus meritorius or the Cities of Veredarius to hackney up and downe all the Towne with a piece of news that he likes obtruding it upon his customers with that earnestnesse and backing it with such asseverations as beleeve it Sir 't is most true I had it from a good hand you may report it for a certain and the like that it would argue want of ingenuity at least in any that should offer to distrust it When all this while most an end 't is nothing so but enjus contrarium c. a little time having given the lye to all this confidence and that not seldome now and then by chance but ordinarily and of course whereof there is at length that notice taken by the most that observation made of his Impudence in this kinde that tell them but of an unlikely improbable unexpected strange occurrence and you shall be answered streightway with a Proverb θ this is Culmers news A Provtrbe Such great strangers usually are truth and his reports each to other and such a brand of Impudence hath this habit of Lying deservedly cast upon him From generalls to descend to some particulars Was it not a prerty peece of shamelesse Impudence to averre as he did to a Committee of Parliament when the Burgesses of the place were by that the Screen 2. Instance the Partition built at h wart the Quire of Christ-Church to which the Communion Table stands as formerly the high Altar did which Screen he labours to demolish did joyne sometime to rebellious Beckets shrine and when the Burgesses gainsaid him to persist and stand in it though himselfe as well as they knew that Shrine and Screen never stood neare each other by divers rods What a strange peece of Impudence was that for him first to report 3. Instance as from the Committee of Parliament for Church-matters or some prime member of it that no jot of painted glasse must be left standing in this Cathedrall and when the thing was afterwards disclaimed as never said by those he vouched for it to deny that ever he reported any such thing what playing Fast and Loose is here but qui semel verecundiae limites transierit oportet ut graviter sit impudens How should he be ashamed to charge the Quire-men as hee doth in the petition 4. Instance a witty pithy peece of his owne noddles invention with hudling over what of late he loves so dearly the Common Prayer when he knowes and so doe many more that he was as guilty of the same himselfe as any Quire-man of them all when Curate of Goodnestone using in the afternoons to be so quick to begin and so nimble to turne over Evening prayer upon pretence of a long way home * Going seven nules to sucke a Bull a proverb well understood in those parts by the way note his Non-residence and his but one Sermon a day a couple of the very neglects wherewith he taxeth the Cathedralists that he had done many times before the people making to Church at two of the clocke the accustomed houre were come together and yet threatning some that thereupon left his Church with the Commissaries Court Turpe est doctori cum culpà redarguit ipsum Was it not an impudent part in him 5. Instance to possesse the Parliament with the truth of what he hath fardell'd up in those foule sheets so as to get them licenced to passe and come abroad by their priviledge and under their protection when he is conscious to himselfe and 't is well enough knowne to his Countrymen that never man abus'd the Parliament with such a miscellany such a hotchpot of falshood malice and slander as by this pasquill he hath done But of his printed Impudence more hereafter when by occasion of his Newes we shall take him to doe for his Lying Thus then for his words Qualis homo talis sermo As for his Actions 6. Instance who ever put fairer then himselfe for vivality in fame with infamous Horostratus that to get him a name set fire of Dian's temple to his surpassing Impudence in the whole acting of this Cathedralls late shamefull rifling in order I wis to it s through reforming who but he had the Impudence to thresh and clash downe the windows in that promiscuous manner without any distinction of Kings from Saints of military-men from martyrs so contrary to his Commission the Ordinance of Parliament for that end with an over daring boldnesse by his owne confession climbing ladders of no common height a shorter one may serve his turne another day no more scornfull then himselfe scoffing Lucianlike in termes concerning our Saviour and his Apostles figures at their pulling downe who forwarder then he shamefully to violate the sepulchres and monuments of the dead who so ready as himselfe to flye in their faces that expressed but the least dislike of his or his fellows wilde demeanour in that for the manner at least scandalous and distastefull action Note yea and bloody too witnesse that sad occasion given to a poore boy to keep it in mind by the losse of a couple of his fingers cut quite off by the violent throwing to of an iron
implicite faith is usually afforded of the superstitious Lay-Priest especially the Spaniard to what his Father-Confessor avoucheth for truth Well whilest he expects what he pleaseth say Reader is not there more Gate then City more of promise then performance What friend promise a miracle in the Title and prove it a lying wonder or a wondrous lie by a silent passing it over in the worke it selfe Bad wine surely where there is so much bush But from the Title to the Author the Historian The Newes-monger and who 's that now Why no Anonymus no namelesse Libeller no creeper into a Bench-hole as one of his name once was whence he was ferretted out at last tanquam acusè speluncâ and fetch'd downe on his knees with a Miserere mei Domine you have his name and with it his Title degree and place of abode in words at length and not in figures 't is Sir Reverence Richard Culmer Minister of Gods word dwelling in Canterbury heretofore of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge Master of Arts. And what is Dick Culmer turn'd Mercury now Mercurius Cathedralis Mercurius Antipraelaticus 't was wont to be said Ex omni ligno non sit Mercurius As for Dick Culmer he is well knowne in those parts he speaks of for a sturdy stout rugged K a man of his hands and an able trencher-man besides in Cambridge famous for foot-ball and swimming * Otherwise infamous enough Qualis Gramaticus talis Academicus semper idem no versipellis but who ever thought him cut out for a Mercury before as being for those abilities he hath Marti aptior quam Mercurio fitter for to serve Mars then the Muses Harae quam Arae the Hogs then the Gods better at fighting then inditing But this is not his first essay at the Mercury if you would know when he first sat up it was about Christmas last when he tooke and sent up in writing to a brother Mercury as he is communicative a learned Legend for the quantity as full of Lies as his of the tryall and execution of a notable Malefactor and Countryman and name-sake Doct. Dick a faire beginning was it not to date his first essayes from the Gallows But see the mans popular itch O pulchrum est digito monstrari dicier hic est The Gallowes and a poore base fellon shall bee his theam rather then faile of publicke notice A Jove no A cruce principium 't is with him and much good doo 't thee Dick proceed and prosper Alpha tuum quale est Omega sitque tuum Leaving his name His-Colledge and demeanor there proceed we to his title heretofore of Magdalen Colledge c. Since hs is pleased to provoke me with the mention of his Colledge I cannot choose but minde him and acquaint the Reader with a story of one of his name sometime of that Colledge the same that borrowed as you heard erewhile in a bench-hole thence called to this day Culmeri Latibulum the same that at another time let himself down Tanet cliffes by a rope fastened about his fathers Cowes hornes feeding by the place to seek for Dawes nests an adventure that hath hardened him ever since against all feare of harme by the rope 't was they say a red hair'd freckle fac'd fellow Judas nown complexion but no matter for that caeteris imparibus we use indeed to say that Vultus indicat animum the index of the minde is the maws countenance but we will answer that with a Froute nulla fides 't is uncertaine aime that is taken by the countenance the furest is the conversation But to my Story This Collegian getting him a bag Iudas bare the bag for the mending his commons with boyl'd butter'd wheat made it his common practice about harvest time to plunder for wheat in some neighbouring fields The owner observing day after day that his corne was stolne but ignorant how or by whom watch'd it one day and tooke the thiefe damage feasant but let him first fill his bag and then dogging him home to his burrow the Colledge made his complaint of him to his Master who by the notoriety of the fact finding him guilty had him forth with into the Buttery gat rods ready for his correction lock'd the doore to them to prevent his escape so that in liklihood here was no way but one with poore Dick to pot he must and yet he must not at least he will not if all the desperate wit he can summon up will save him Inst then as he should goe too 't Scelue scelerae tulum he breaks loose from the Master and Butler both gets him to the barrells whereof there were divers then abroach pulls out the spickets one after another and whiles the Master and Butler for saving the beere busily bestirr'd themselves to stop these leaks the key unhapily being left standing in the buttery doore the fellow turnes it and so escaped out of the buttery and Colledge both whither as some say he never returned more being immediatly according to his just demerit shamefully expelled And if our Richard be the man whatever pride he may take in challenging that Colledge for his nurse or that University for his mother neither of them doubtlesse can reap much comfort or credit by acknowledging him for their son My reasons if you aske them besides what are premised you may collect from the following character and description of the man His vertves resulting from a posie of some of those rare vertues wherewith he is accomplished by which he is knowne at home and for which he deserves to be no lesse famous abroad then that notable paire of his predecessors Bale and Martin the one a seditious Priest in Richard the seconds dayes the other a scurrilous Libeller in Queen Elizabeths or any other enemy of Imparity in Church or State ever were in former times Herein you may expect me and be sure to the best of my intelligence shall find me as farre from slander as himselfe from truth in most of the indigested stories he relates in that confused Chaos of his Mercurian Essay The marks of the beast are these 1. Refractorinesse 2. Impudence 3. Covetousnesse 4. Hypocrisie 5. Clamourousnesse 6. Vnnaturalnesse 7. Maliciousnesse 8. Doltishnesse 9. Lying And under these heads as you shall have the mans life which 'twere pitty a man of his part should want and which added to his worke as the laudable manner is when the authot's dead as this man either is or ought to be might the gallows have its due would much helpe to vent their thousands so likewise a sufficient answer to most of his accusations of value his grosse Lies especially legible enough in every page and passage almost of that false Legend To begin then with the first 7. Refractorinesse his Refractorinesse Being born to few naturall parts and bred to lesse learning and consequently wanting what might render him and his society acceptable and gracefull to men of parts
will appear to the lasting shame and infamy of such odious malice heightned in this A treacherous guest that the place where these pretended dangerous words were uttered was the accusers own table in Christmasse time No marvell that a Noble man one of the Councell-board thereupon let fall this wish or deprecation rather From such guests good Lord deliver me Adde hereunto that they were concealed and not complained of till almost half a yeare after in revenge too for the Gentlemans being as was pretended a means to dispossesse his accuser of what he mouths so much by the name of his Benefice his Curatship a little before his complaint preferred which 't is knowne he lost for refusing to read what he hath since been heard to wish he had read the booke of Liberty But to the transcript taken from the very originall under seal At Whitehall the 9 of Octob. 1635. Present Lo. Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Lo. Keeper Lo. Privy-seal Earle Marshall Lo. Cottington Mr. See Wyndebanck Whereas upon an information given by R. C. Clerk against E. B. of B. in the County of Kent Gent. the said E. B. was sent for by warrant Note and bound to appeare and answer the same before their Lordship on Friday the 9 of this present this day both the said parties having beene called and heard before the board their Lordships finding the said information and complaint against Mr. B. to have been causlesse and unjust did thinke fit and order that he should be forthwith discharged from any further attendance concerning the same and that the bonds by him entred into for his appearance should be delivered up unto him Lastly that the said R. C. should for such his mis-information and abuse stand committed prisoner to the Fleet. * The 12 Tables would have condemned him to death Qui falsum testimonium dixisse convictus erit saxo Tarpeio descitor Ext. c. And now Reader what thinke you of his Maliciousnes I conceive you expect no further evidence Leaving that then let 's try him next for his Doltishnes And for that 8. Doltishnesse if he please he shall have his booke let him bee tried by that VVhat judicious man having read the promising Title page where he findes the author arrogating the Title and degree of a Master of Arts looks over the booke can refraine from a Scribimus indocti doctique c. of a Parturiunt montes c. can conclude it to be other then a meere unworthy ridiculous peece a pitifull poore jejune dry dull empty essay for a Master of Arts Can he be thought other then a meere Ignoramus a Duns a Dullard a Dolt a Culmer that hath fardelled up a deale of bald bold base virulent scurrillous stuffe as void of learning as of truth as void of method as full of malice written surely with inke mixt and made of vinegar and kennell water A foule pen. and fitter for nothing then the basest of necessary uses what Master of Arts but he would not be ashamed of such a blue come off had he not great need to print his thousands Quid dignum tanto tulit hic promissor hiatu But here 's the knack on 't 't is fitted to the genius of his old patrons the vulgar calculated to the meridian of their capacities and if the people the rabble the multitude relish taste resent it well quoth Dick why Hey then up goe we If it please their palats and take well with them satis est superque having never yet learn'd it seems that Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est But what saith he Equisonem quam equitem mihi plaudere cure Thus expects he aurum è stercore â—â—e like a meere dunghill craven But though by his own confession 't is sure working by the book yet that 's not all the evidence we have to prove his Duns ship Aske about in the places of his greatest concourse amongst those if you will that best affect him and you shall never finde their respect their affection towards him grounded upon any learning or Scholler-like parts that he is guilty of 'T is confessed of all hands that he is a very meane dry dull preacher a worse disputant and for the pen fit liber Inden I appeale to his booke What it is that hath commended him to their affection and begat their esteem of him is his forwardnesse to heare and carry newes and to be active and dextrous in such works of orderly reformation as that whereof he blusheth not to make his boast in that Lying Legend As for any other matter worthy of note in him they are all as great strangers to it as himselfe But enough of that Now to his Lying I have heard of a youth one of his Tribe 9 Lying a bold factious fellow for Schollership as errant a blockhead as himselfe for conversation it may be somwhat looser much taxed for a notorious Lyer and so noted for it at the Vniversity that a common noted Lyer by a new invented Proverb amongst them was nicknamed after him how well he deserved it I partly know but how our scribler Dr. Dicke deserves the like all the City and parts adjacent by long experience of his common customary habituall lying know so well that were it put to the vote there whether or no a notorious Lyer should be called a Culmerist I dare warrant you it would be resolved upon the question perquà m paucis contradicentibus in the affirmative Whence els our common Proverb of Culmers Newes A Proverb taken up for an odious untruth a lowd Lie A faculty that hath so disparaged his intelligence whereof he makes a trade that truth and true intelligence fares the worse and wants that credit it deserves many times with most of his good Masters for coming out of his mouth so accustomed to run over with flammes and falshoods the just reward of a known convicted * Mendax hoâ— lucratur ut cùm vera dixerit ei non credatur Arist apud Diog. l. 5 lyer By the way tell me are we not like to have Peace and Truth meet apace the hearty and unfained wish of all good Protestants and true Patriots whilest these hypocrites mouth nothing more meane nothing lesse are not these I say like to meet and greet apace when least our peace should returne before their ends their turnes are serv'd to continue their dismall distance we must have such fomenting of divisions such flattering of parties with Lyes lyes by the living lyes by the dead lyes from the Presse and would I could not say lyes from the Pulpit too But all this while we speak without book It 's sure going by the booke saith Dick. Let 's then from his verball transient lies whereof somwhat before in his Impudence to his printed permanent lies yet not all those neither for fowling too much paper but here and there one for a tast and test of the whole pack as
we use to say Ex pede Herculem you may judge of Hercules dimensions by his foot Not to repeat that which beares the bell from all the rest 1. Instance the Passing-bell and to passe over the Petition marching in the Front that I may not seem so rash as to grapple with a multitude though the thing without all question be properly his own as the Amanuensis who lead the Petitioners into a manifest untruth when he made them certifie that Doctor c. was Parson of Hith Parson of Ickham Parson of Well Parson of Salt wood c. and Doctor c. Parson of Back-Church in London Parson of Barham in East-Kent neere Dover Parson of Bishopsbourne c. when he knowes as well as hundreds more in those parts that as Hith and Salt wood are but one and the same Parsonage Ickham and Well another so Bishopsbourne and Barham are no more though he reckon the Chappell 's as severall and distinct Parsonages one of which Well is long since desolate and marshall them so farre asunder that his fallacious and unfaithfull dealing may be the better hid To let these things passe I say and come to his Pamphlet What an impudent lie is that 〈◊〉 Instance pag. 4. where with sawcie language towards most of the Bench whom he calls malignant and Prelaticall Justices he affirmes that they so bestirred themselves that the arraigned Cathedralist was 't is plaine he means unjustly acquitted when it is notorious in the Countrey and we have nothing but his bare word in contradiction that the businesse had a square faire triall and the prisoner by an whole dozen of honest and unbyac'd Jury-men was legally a quitted Thus for the text Now what saith the margin Why A Cathedrall lasse beguiled by a Singing-man Like text like margin both false The beguiler he knowes nor is it unknown to Town and Countrey was no Singing-man but a Townsman a Chirurgion that but a while before left the City to dwell in the Church Now when in a thing so fresh in memory he dares to falsifie so grossely what truth may we expect from his stories of occurrences pretending to 30. or 40. years standing Withall see what a tale he hath here chosen to begin with to defile his own nest * Turdus sibi malum cacat withall like a cursed Cham to discover his fathers shame by reviving the story of his quondam-questioning for beguiling a wench in those dayes called begetting a bastard which otherwise was well nigh buried in oblivion Doubtlesse friend neither Father nor * Cui pater est populus non habet ipse paâ—rem Fatherlesse have reason to con you much thanks for this occasion of making their credits to bleed afresh by such unadvised tale-telling But since you will needs provoke the discourse by talking of Bastards prethee man tell me as you are an excellent Casuist what may be thought of their children that marty themselves The validity 〈◊〉 new-fashioned marriages debated as a precious paire of your acquaintance lately did in Canterbury or of theirs either which you and your fellowes use of late to couple and put together marrying you would have it call'd after an upstart new-fangled I should say reformed way of your own devising with utter detestation waving that of the Church of England both in point of what is to precede the solemnization publishing of Banes c. and in the solemnization it selfe the Forme prescribed in our Liturgy established by Law Admit upon occasion their Legitimation come in question what 1 As to the Issues Legitimation I say in the judgment of sober men regulating their opinions by the Law of the Land may be thought thereof or how shall it be justified when the policie of this State hitherto for I speake not of the future not knowing what tomorrow may bring forth allowes not of what their legitimation depends on their parents intermarriage in such a case And doth not the like scruple offer it selfe in point of dower 2 As to the widdowes dower For suppose that after such a mock-marriage the good-man dying the widdow be put to sue for her dower and consequently to plead the accouplement en loyall matrimony I would fain know how in this case she shall be able to justifie her plea being married after such a sort as the Church of England to whose connusance the State transfers the plea is so farre from approving that the parties so coupled in her construction if those that know her mind I meane Lawyers may be credited are so farre from being man and wife in foro fori that if in foro conscientiae they finde no tie upon them to the contrary they may even forsake and leave each other when they please without controll And what fine work my masters this may chance to make in time judge ye But by the way take this story along with you as in my judgment not impertinent not borrowed from either Plato's Common-wealth or Sir Tho. Mores Vtopia but of that reality and certain truth that 't will be no newes at all to many now in London ready with an Ecce as it were of demonstration to point out the parties A watch then being lately set on foot between a young couple in London and both parties and parents so farre agreed An instance 〈◊〉 such a marriage both in point of portion and otherwise as that nothing now was wanting of two to make them one but an orderly solemnizing their nuptiall rites they must needs forsooth be married for so the maids father will have it after the new fashion without asking without licence without ring without book The young man for the present dissembles his dislike of the way and suffers the father herein to have his will With the sequel of it After this mock-marriage what do the young paire but like other married couples live and lie together and by the provocation of such opportunities somewhat at length followed that required the countenance of a reall marriage which the young man perceiving and being unsatisfied both with the way of his marriage and with the summe of his wives portion or it may be intending to take advantage of the invalidity and illegality of the one to procure an augmentation of the other and thinking the time now come to do the feat what doth he but as if cleere of all conjugall bands and no way obliged to nuptiall duties forsakes his pregnant bed-fellow disclaims her for his wife A whore and a knave nay and in dispute about the matter with her father that he may cast the Whore upon her is contented to take the Knave unto himselfe so that in short for his part actum est de connubio hee 'l no more of the match unlesse for after much adoe to these termes they came at length and this was that the young man had in project all the while to that portion which he had had with her